So I made a physio step stool.

Thanks for watching. This is a project where I made a step stool from cheap timber found in any DIY or lumber yard. Glued with Gorilla wood glue, stained with Crimson Guitars wood stain and finished with Wilko Danish oil, if any of that matters to you :)
The method of joinery here was inspired by Mike Montgomery from Modern Builds and the outdoor bench he made from 4 by 2s. His bench was directly inspired from someone called DIY Candy. I'll link to both of those projects below.
www.modernbuilds.com/diy-moder...
diycandy.com/modern-williams-...
I need a stool to perform my physio exercises on due to injuring myself after I sustained a gluteal tendinopathy. Which isn't bursitis or tendinitis. But similar. It hurts unless I'm standing or laying down.
So I wanted something to be able to dips, and steps and high steps and standing on one leg. And came up with this beast
I played with some ideas in Sketchup... I think I had the design in mind but was working out how to build depending on different sizes. In the end the final design was dictated by finding some cls construction timber on offer in my local Homebase. It was split and twisted as all chain wood is - but I selected a few pieces that would work.
After scratching my head... a lot... surely there's software to do this? I worked out a cutting list.
Now I'd normally saw things by hand. But I needed to reliably and repeatedly cut many lengths. Without the luxury of a mitre saw or a table saw I eventually realised that if I open the jaws of my workmate I could lay my track saw across and plunge cut them. It was slightly awkward, but worked a treat!
I then examined the pieces of defects and use superglue to run into the cracks and stabilise any knots.
Following that I used the mitre guide on my disc sander to smooth and straighten the ends and the belt sander to clean up the sides.
Attempted a dry fit
Struck by my lack of clamps I decided to use a lot of tape to hold things in place.
Then I use dowels to help with alignment and glue the three sections in place... thankfully they lined up quite well. Because these sections of wood had rounded off corners I did consider removing them first... but actually this worked in my favour for covering any tiny alignment failures...
The downside was it made glue cleanup a lot harder in the valleys between planks. Lots of sanding.
I was slightly worried about staining it a dark brown - pine being infamous for not taking a stain well - or even showing as a reverse grain. Well, that was the least of my problems with the amount of glue all over the assembly.
So after tediously fixing the glue runs as best as I could. I restained it.
It came out nice and dark. So on top of that I applied some Danish Oil. The ends of the wood soaking lots of it up. After three coats of it, I was really impressed with the look of it.
Reminds me of really ages oak furniture in churches - not a deliberate effect but pleasing none the less.
It took about a week to fully cure and the smell to go. But then it was in the confines of my garage where it was cold and little air movement to help.
As a bonus it makes a nifty guitar stool too!

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Great step stool